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On December 25, the "International Circassian Organization" sent a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a request to include compatriots from Syria living in Russia in the category of people eligible for simplified obtaining of citizenship.

Blogger Mekhman Guseinov, suspected of beating a penal colony warder two months before the release, has been transferred to a punishment cell. He has refused to testify and went on a hunger strike, relatives and friends of the prisoner report. An advocate of Mekhman Guseinov complained that she was not allowed to visit the defendant.

Participants of the AniDag anime festival, which was not held in November because of threats, demanded from the Dagestani law enforcement bodies to investigate a criminal case on incitement of hostility. 

Employees of budget-funded institutions have to participate in raising money for New Year's gifts for children in the framework of the action organized by a Ramzan Kadyrov's daughter, report residents of Grozny. 

The removal of clitoris is not on the list of allowed medical services; and such surgeries on girls contain signs of a criminal offense. This was declared by the "Roszdravnadzor" (the Russian Federal Service for Surveillance in Healthcare) after checking a Moscow clinic where female circumcision was performed.

On December 26, an elderly Azerbaijani woman was wounded during shelling of a border village. Doctors helped her, the Agdam district authorities have stated.

A court in Baku has dismissed the defence's petition to transfer Azad Gasanov, an activist of the "Musavat" Party, to house arrest. The defence claims a violation of Gasanov's right to meet and talk by phone with his family members.

The refusal to come to the republic's Kadiate undermines the Alims' authority, Malsag Uzhakhov, the chairman of the Ingush Council of Teips, has stated. A refusal to resolve disputes as befits a Muslim, is moving such people are moving away from the society, Magomed Mutsolgov, a human rights defender, believes.

Mekhman Guseinov, convicted in Azerbaijan on charges of libel against policemen, was suspected of beating up a colony employee. They want to prevent the regime's critic from being released, rights defenders believe.

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has accused the authorities of Azerbaijan of violating the truce, and urged to refrain from aggravating the conflict during the holidays.

The solution of the problem of the boy from Grozny, who has addressed Ramzan Kadyrov, was a typical Kadyrov's promotion action like those undertaken by Vladimir Putin. Kadyrov is manipulating the opinion of residents of Chechnya, by demonstrating polar reactions to people's appeals, rights defenders assert.

Law enforcers have strengthened security measures in Grozny before the New Year holidays, and on December 25, conducted passport checks, local residents have reported. The law enforcement bodies treat them as prophylactic measures.

The actions of law enforcers during the pickets in defence of the LGBT movement in Volgograd should be assessed by investigators, the Prosecutor's Office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), said Alexei Nazarov, an activist.

Khabib Nurmagomedov, an MMA fighter from Dagestan, was questioned at Makhachkala Airport before flying to Turkey. Border guards suspected him of trying to join the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization, banned in Russia by the court.

The Mufti of Ingushetia is invited to a meeting to be held on January 12 to discuss permissible conditions for the use of a Sharia Court, reports the Muslim Coordination Centre (MCC) of Northern Caucasus.

Ramzan Kadyrov drew the attention of the Grozny Mayor to a video appeal shot by a boy who complained on Instagram that he had hot water running from two taps.

The Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reported opening a criminal case on the fact of kidnapping in Ingushetia of Oleg Kozlovsky, a member of international human rights organization "Amnesty International" (AI), the Committee against Torture (CaT) reports.

In Makhachkala, the court confirmed that the decision to evict a family from a residential building was not grounded, the Prosecutor's Office reported.

On December 25, in the village of Gachiani in the Gardaban District, where Azerbaijani people lived, activists held an action with the demand to release two persons detained after a conflict at the cemetery on the charge of resisting the police.

The administrative case against a 17-year-old coordinator of the art group "Vesna" (Spring), who in November participated in hanging out a banner on the Akhmat Kadyrov Bridge in Saint Petersburg, has been closed.